Quitar Payjoy Con Adb Top May 2026

Technically? Without root, yes. With root? Maybe, but you’d lose the phone’s value anyway (and violate the contract).

Rooting a PayJoy-locked phone often triggers an immediate permanent lock. Plus, many modern phones (Samsung, Motorola, Xiaomi) have locked bootloaders, making root impossible without official unlock – which PayJoy won’t allow.

Now, use the brute force method.

First, try to kill the process:

adb shell am force-stop com.payjoy.lock

(The screen might flicker, but it will return.)

Second, try to disable the package. This is the final "top" trick:

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.payjoy.lock

Or if that fails:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.payjoy.lock

Note: --user 0 refers to the primary user. This removes the app only for that user, but since the system user is the same, it effectively disables PayJoy for the entire phone.

If you are lucky enough to have ADB access while the phone is on the home screen (before PayJoy triggers its lock), you might run:

adb shell
pm list packages | grep payjoy
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.payjoy.main

Result: Failure - Device Admin Active.

Before diving into the "how," it is critical to understand what PayJoy is. Unlike a simple app lock, PayJoy uses a combination of software and hardware-level identifiers. Once installed, it takes a "digital fingerprint" of your device, including the IMEI, serial number, and Google Service Framework ID.

If you miss a payment, the app locks the screen, rendering the phone useless. To "quitar PayJoy" (remove PayJoy), you are not just uninstalling an app; you are fighting a persistent agent that survives factory resets.